[buddypress-dev] Portable friends

[Andrea]

This does sound way better than checking to see if there's been an 
update first. From a user perspective, I love the lj-like friends 
feature. Users also want control and a sense of privacy. From an MU 
admin perspective, I'd like to see the focus on network-wide first and 
then maybe add from outside systems later.

Andrea

Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk wrote:
> This minimises the amount of remote polling because friends' sites are
> only called when there is has been an update made - not to check if
> there *has* been an update made. It can also be made secure, because a
> user could set their status updates to "everyone", but their photo
> gallery updates only to "family".
>
> Lastly it puts the status of the friendship under the data senders
> control. Another example:
>
> Jack has said he is Jill's friend. But Jill isn't Jack's friend, ever
> since that part at Bob's house where he got a bit frisky by the punch
> bowl. Jack might want to know when Jill updates her status message so
> he can harass her, but he isn't going to get those notifications
> automatically because he isn't in Jill's friends list. And because
> Jack isn't in Jill's friends list she can say whether she wants to see
> notifications from him or not, by leaving the "View updates from
> people who say they are your friend (but you haven't said you are
> theirs)?" box unchecked.
>   
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